President
Barack Obama and his Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolititano
are planning to make it easy for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants
to enter the United States in 2012. The new rules were released last
Friday without much media fanfare.

According
to Neil Munro at The Daily Caller, the “prosecutorial discretion”
memo says officials need not enforce immigration laws if illegal immigrants
are enrolled in an education center or if their relatives have volunteered
for the US military.

“They’re
pushing the [immigration] agents to be even more lax, to go further
in not enforcing the law,” said Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary
of state. “At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed
and looking for work, this is more bad news coming from the Obama administration—
[if the adminiistration] really cared about putting Americans back to
work, it would be vigorously enforcing the law,” said Kobach,
who has helped legislators in several states draft local immigration-related
laws.

“We
think it is an excellent step,” said Laura Vasquez, at the Hispanic-advocacy
group, La Raza, which pushed for the policies, and which is working
with other groups to register Hispanics to vote in 2012. “What’s
very important is how the prosecutorial discretion memo is implemented”
on the streets, she said.

It's
apparent that President Obama considers Americans, who want to enforce
illegal immigration laws in America, to be the enemy. Even more revealing
is the fact that with so much riding on the 2012 elections, Obama decided
to take the time to speak to people who shouldn't be voting —
legal and illlegal immigrants.

But
the dirty little secret is there exists an enormous amount of proof
that non-citizens are being registered to vote and they're being registered
as Democrats. And our political leaders know it.

In
the midst of a heated congressional race in California in 2006, the
Democrat Party candidate was heard advising a crowd she knew were illegal
aliens to vote and work for her campaign. Democrat Francine Busby supported
the bipartisan immigration reform plan that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
helped create with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Busby believes
that the amnesty serves as the heart of the legislation approved by
the Senate last week.

"The
U.S. Census Bureau reports that 28.2 percent of Hispanic voters in the
2008 election were immigrants," according to Steven Camarota of
Center for Immigration Studies

Whistleblower
J. Christian Adams, who testified before a Commission of Civil Rights
committee regarding voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers, dropped
a bomb on his former employers at the Department of Justice.

According
to Adams, a Deputy Attorney General refused to investigate allegations
of illegal voting during the last presidential election.

While
Justice Department officials deny this allegation — and the news
media portray Adams as a disgruntled employee or Bush apologist —
a study released by the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation
provides proof that illegal aliens and immigrants with green cards are
committing rampant voter fraud in the United States.

Reports
of ineligible persons registering to vote have raised concerns about
state processes for verifying voter registration lists. States usually
base voter eligibility on the voter's age, US citizenship, mental competence,
and felon status.

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Although
individual states run elections, Congress has authority to affect the
administration of the elections. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA)
had set a deadline for states to have a statewide voter registration
list and list verification procedures.

For
example, the methods used in seven selected states to verify voter eligibility
and ensure accuracy of voter registration lists were varied and include
relying on registrant self attestation, return mailings, and checking
against lists of felony convictions or deceased individuals. Some states,
for instance, failed to do any more than ask on their application forms
if the registrant was a US citizen. The applicant will merely check
off the "Yes" box, but there is no action to verify the authenticity
of that answer.

"The
voter registration officials simply take the word of the registrant
with no follow-up," said conservative political strategist Michael
Baker.

"Some
states that require some backup documentation merely ask for a utility
bill or a driver's license — neither of which prrove citizenship.
In other words, legal or illegal aliens can easily register to vote
in local and national elections," warns Baker.

According
to a Congressional study of voter fraud, other challenges such as identifying
duplicate registrations in other states or having insufficient information
to match other data sources with voter registration lists may continue
to be issues.

While
federal data sources have the potential to help state election officials
identify registrants who may be convicted felons or non-citizens, few
states communicate with federal agencies such as the Homeland Security
Department's immigration section.

Many
government officials — mostly liberals — claim that illegal
aliens voting is not a majorr problem, conservative activists respond
that while the potential number identified may be small, an election
can be decided by a few votes. In 2000, the presidential race between
Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush was decided by a few
hundred votes in Florida.

"While
the news media perpetuated the assertion that Bush and the GOP 'stole'
the election, it could very well have been illegal aliens voting in
Florida that made the outcome so close," said former NYPD cop,
now security firm owner, Sid Francis.

"Bush
may have beaten Gore by more votes if illegals were excluded, since
immigrants tend to vote for Democrats. Or Gore could have won decisively
had there been prior screening before people were allowed into the voting
booths," said Det. Francis.

"There
was absolutely no mention in the mainstream media regarding suspected
voter fraud by illegal or legal aliens. It was much easier for the agenda-driven
newspeople to accuse Republicans of stealing the election," added
Baker.

"Florida
is not unique. Thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote in some
states, and tens if not hundreds of thousands in total may be present
on the voter rolls nationwide. These numbers are significant: Local
elections are often decided by only a handful of votes, and even national
elections have likely been within the margin of the number of non-citizens
illegally registered to vote," said Hans A. von Spakovsky, a researcher
at the Heritage Foundation.

"There
is no reliable method to determine the number of non-citizens registered
or actually voting because most laws to ensure that only citizens vote
are ignored, are inadequate, or are systematically undermined by government
officials. Those who ignore the implications of non-citizen registration
and voting either are willfully blind to the problem or may actually
favor this form of illegal voting," said Spakovsky, an expert on
the subject of illegal aliens and immigration law, during an interview
on Fox News Channel.

As
far as felons, US Attorneys are required to notify state election officials
of federal felony convictions, but the information is not always easy
for election officials to interpret or complete, according to New Jersey
GOP strategist Janice Martin.

"Americans
would be shocked to discover that hundreds of thousands of general election
voters are illegal aliens, green-card immigrants, and criminals who've
murdered, raped and robbed US citizens. And guess which political party
benefits the most from their votes? The one that's pushing for amnesty
and a bag full of free goodies," said Martin.

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Dr.
von Spakovsky believes many government officials and politicians are
complicit in the voter fraud problem.

"To
keep non-citizens from diluting citizens' votes, immigration and election
officials must cooperate far more effectively than they have to date,
and state and federal officials must increase their efforts to enforce
the laws against non-citizen voting that are already on the books,"
he wrote in his Heritage Foundation study on illegal alien voter fraud.

Jim Kouri, CPP
is currently fifth vice-president of the National
Association of Chiefs of Police. He's former chief at a New York City
housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters
covering the drug war in the 1980s. He's also served on the National Drug
Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.

He writes for
many police and crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times,
The Narc Officer, Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others. He's appeared
as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including
Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book
Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and
can be ordered at local bookstores.

According to Neil
Munro at The Daily Caller, the “prosecutorial discretion”
memo says officials need not enforce immigration laws if illegal immigrants
are enrolled in an education center or if their relatives have volunteered
for the US military.